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January 2011

Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris


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The New Year is like a perfectly clean new house into which we all stagger with good intentions and muddy boots.

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"Opposites attract" makes for stable atoms and amazing marriages.

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Unity is the safety net forever beneath twonity.

4
What makes a writer write is what makes a breather breathe -- alternatives are severely limited.

5
Drinking from deep springs won't make you deep, but digging may.

6
We all have free will. In fact, our will is so free that we often have little control over it.

7
No separateness, no crowds.

8
When a new door opens, its hinges may be lubricated by your tears.

9
Beauty is nearer than your eye, more distant than the faintest star.

10
Buy now, and forever comes free.

11
Well-timed silence is the purest speech.

12
If it isn't cycles, it's waves.

13
Competition feeds the outer person, while cooperation feeds the inner.

14
I cry out into the silence to let me hear it. No reply but silence.

15
Poets and prisms make rainless rainbows.

16
If you would hear the song of the infinite, listen quietly through the ends of your toes.

17
Fate remains wonderfully poised when gamblers tempt it.

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To demand good but not to give is a recipe for personal stink.

19
Your real name can't be spelled or pronounced -only lived.

20
Human motives are so complex that a judge can only be a poet of justice.

21
Who can talk the flower out of blooming?

22
"With our amazing product you will grow healthier every year until you die in perfect health."

23
Many who will sit inert before a TV all day will also honk in slow traffic.

24
When an error is made, the stupid blame, the conventional cluck, and the awake learn.

25
Work, and the world works with you. Shirk, and the world ignores you.

26
Everyone contributes to society -- some by serving as horrible examples.

27
Opportunity breeds opportunism breeds misfortune breeds opportunity.

28
Anything you hide is perfectly safe until found.

29
Reversals for the body are rehearsals for the spirit.

30
Flattery and fishing give hooked gifts.

31
Infatuation: love so intense, beautiful, and brief as to be unachievable by the secure.

Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

February 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
Carry your enthusiasm and it carries you.

2
Leaving a few stones unturned in a marriage or a minefield can be downright healthy.

3
A society lady's best snub is no match for that of a summoned house cat.

4
A house has square feet; a home has footsteps.

5
You get the most free financial advice from people who are in your pocket.

6
Nobody scolds like a coward.

7
Whoever first said "Hey, man!" was to become the most widely quoted dude in modern times.

8
Over time, pleasure and pain go together like tick and tock.

9
Stronger than most armor are motives clean and seen.

10
When a man's thinking is airtight, his mouth usually leaks.

11
A stitch in time saves the theory of relativity.

12
Chaos you shall always have with you, and also overcontrol -- try love.

13
Opposites attract, opposites butt heads, and opposites make up.

14
Philosophies are a paradigm a dozen, but if they don't acknowledge love, they fall away like leaves."

15
The ability to fly high on life's trapeze doesn't mean one is any good on life's tightrope.

16
Music is evidence that beauty, mathematics, and time all live in the same neighborhood.

17
Ask not whether they'll hire you; ask what good they're doing for folks.

18
When wealth speaks, greed listens.

19
When you're down in the dumps, incoming advice becomes excruciatingly abundant.

20
If not by love, then by law.

21
Moment: an infinitely expandable unit of time, used often in situations of love or airline delays.

22
Even with its hassles, life seems to be the best thing they've come up with yet.

23
Occasionally necessity takes its jackhammer to our expectations to make way for what the chief architect really wants.

24
People you have to interrupt so they can see your side, won't.

25
The wealthy feel wise, and the wise feel wealthy.

26
Getting your hair clipped tends to make your secrets fall out of your mouth.

27
To marry for happiness may end up stretching both words a little.

28
If every discarded corporate goal in America could be changed into a muffin, world hunger might be ended. S 2 9 16 23 30 M 3 10 17 24 31 T 4 11 18 25

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Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

March 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Feb 2011 W 2 9 16 23 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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T 3 10 17 24 F 4 11 18 25 S 5 12 19 26 A thought between two bites of a sandwich can change your destiny.

2
The road to hell is littered with the manuscripts of church sermons written late on Saturday.

3
Killed time gets even.

4
The cause of anything is no less than everything.

5
Every new human being is an impossibility become inevitable.

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6
In truest love, giving and taking become moot.

7
The meek shall inherit the earth -- as long as this is really okay and like everybody's done with it and everything.

8
At the end of a day, is there one less day in your life or one more day in your life?

9
Brilliance without altruism is a cut flower.

10
Growing old means throwing all abandon to the winds.

11
Intolerance leads to suffering leads to investigation leads to compassion.

12
Free choice is everywhere; freedom from consequences is nowhere.

13
Friendships with others bring us heaven before heaven.

14
Brilliance uses fine words; character, pauses.

15
Anything you can get away with, you can't.

16
Morning Prayer: Now I wake me up from bed; I thank the Lord I'm still not dead. The Lord declined my soul to take, for reasons which remain opaque.

17
The freshest ideas are also the oldest.

18
This is the first minute of the rest of your hour.

19
Good giving brings good gifts, and well-thinking fills the air with well-being.

20
If roses are art, then thorns are critics. The soft choose heart; the hard, analytics.

21
Nothing deepens character like a firmly balanced dilemma.

22
Rumors are disagreeable to many; but then, so is the truth.

23
Silence is golden, like wedding rings only much scarcer.

24
You can't kid hate.

25
Desperation gives Cupid quick wings.

26
Lecture: a verbal dance between voice and attention, sometimes accompanied by meaning.

Silence is golden, like wedding rings only much scarcer.

27
Love isn't fussy, but it works best where there is a universe, attraction, infinity, and time.

28
We are most strengthened, over time, by our weaknesses.

29
An opportunity without opportunists is as rare as a cowflop without flies.

30
Consensus usually belongs to the first one who dares to ahem and summarize.

31
Businessman's Prayer: God grant me the ingenuity to escape the things I cannot change, money to change the things I can, and lawyers to know the difference.

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Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

April 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Mar 2011 W T 2 3 9 10 16 17 23 24 30 31 Tuesday Wednesday May 2011 T W T 3 4 5 10 11 12 17 18 19 24 25 26 31 Thursday Friday Saturday

1
F 6 13 20 27 S 7 14 21 28 It's folly to destroy truth, whatever its costume or yours.

2
Need we be terribly surprised at the shortcomings of a world that is substantially run by the personalities who dominate meetings?

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3
The Kindest Safe: Thieves will fail, try as they may, to steal any money you've given away.

4
A suture in time saves the future.

5
Precious stones iridesce; precious people irritate.

6
To find big mistakes, look for big egos.

7
Perhaps the only infallible way to detect a lie is to be the liar.

8
It takes a long time to hurry, but now comes quick as a thought.

9
The kindly man in the mountain cave spoke but briefly: "Search for a way to stop searching."

10
Tears talk to heaven, and heaven answers.

11
Poetry works best when you ignore the words.

12
To find order in chaos, stop looking there.

13
Find some friends you like, or be satisfied with the friends who find you.

14
If we only have enough presence of mind to reach out, someone may put just the right thing into our hand.

15
If life isn't eternal, who cares what is?

16
Much knowledge is belief wearing a top hat.

17
To nurse a few grudges is forgivable if you try not to breast-feed them.

18
Since last century, computers have been enabling business offices to proceed much faster from one emergency to the next.

19
The last word is never the last word.

20
Living it up usually takes far less time than living it down.

21
Can a fountain be robbed?

22
For every question conceived in the mind, an answer resides in the heart.

23
Indignation that is righteous is usually your own.

24
Truth can be stranger than fiction, but poetry can be stranger than either.

25
Grief cooks a nourishing oatmeal for the soul.

26
People remember your generosity far longer than your accumulation.

27
There's nothing new beneath the sun, but luckily, what's old is fun.

28
Visualization can be important to one's advancement in a large company, especially the ability to see clothing on naked emperors.

29
Where would a poet be without an angst to grind?

30
"All of our operators are still busy helping others. We appreciate your patience. In fact, we take it to the bank."

Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

May 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
So much depends on love that you'd think more people would use it.

2
Those on the take give up what those on the give take out.

3
Leave the past behind you, but if parts of it get back in front of you, ask them why.

4
The tongue inside the brain speaks awfully bravely.

5
A grandmother's love could light a large city.

6
There is nothing in this world but everything, and it can't all happen in a day.

7
The teeth of adversity grow directly behind the smile of fortune.

8
The wall that protects you also confines you.

9
When you're reading a book about Zen, you're not reading a book about Zen.

10
As surely as a bud, given water, will become a flower, the office sycophant, given power, will become an autocrat.

11
A loving thought is deeper than the night sky.

12
In the dear school of experience, gentleness is our finest achievement.

13
Each person is a jewel polished by trouble.

14
Doubt fueled by compassion resembles faith without pretense.

15
Consequences teach what parents and teachers failed to.

16
But for your past calamities, your virtues might be fewer.

17
When the irresistible meets the immovable, a telephone rings somewhere.

18
Never let a confident person fold your parachute.

19
"Smile" is an anagram of "slime" -- and also a path through it.

20
You can give more than you have, but you can't take more than there is.

21
A yacht is a cheap substitute for walking on water.

22
Anyone who likes to compliment finds ready listeners.

23
A newborn's first thought: "Now what?"

24
Our commencement speaker revealed at length his firm grasp of the obvious.

25
Good people die, and good people let them.

26
When you work for yourself, both of you work.

27
To measure quality is the ultimate fantasy of the quantitative.

28
Blunders create as many opportunities as does brilliance.

29
Opportunity knocks, but the inevitable just comes on in.

30
Too many first-chair players spoil the orchestra.

31
A strong person has weak moments and is strengthened by each one. S 3 10 17 24 M 4 11 18 25 T 5 12 19 26

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Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

June 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday May 2011 T W T 3 4 5 10 11 12 17 18 19 24 25 26 31 Monday Tuesday Jul 2011 W T 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
F 1 8 15 22 29 S 2 9 16 23 30 Anybody who thinks you walk on water, later won't.

2
Love is the key that unlocks the door of the visible to reveal a magnificent invisible.

3
Opinion is wisdom in diapers.

4
A dewdrop on one blade of grass makes oceans moot.

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5
When light is shining within, no darkness from without can penetrate it.

6
The ethically blind see themselves everywhere they go.

7
Many would like to become great, but being alive is a hindrance and being dead is distasteful.

8
Everyone, even vegetarians, can benefit by occasionally eating crow.

9
We spend our first forty years making mistakes, and our next forty years making more mistakes.

10
Friends bend where fakes break.

11
Wherever there's new ointment, can a fly be far away?

12
Moderation in all things, including moderation.

13
Walking barefoot in grass makes your understanding tingle.

14
Killing is a decidedly one-sided pleasure.

15
Friends have love without vows, faithfulness without reason.

16
The palate can murder the colon.

17
The light never goes out, but sometimes we need to go in and fetch it.

18
How can we be sure that infinity is all there?

19
The larger the city, the shorter the tempers.

20
Adversity can engender achievement, whereas aimless comfort is a living cemetery.

21
Among the laziest are some of the busiest.

22
Honesty costs only one ego.

23
The impossible is just around the corner.

24
In a selfish society, the word "free" is the most successful pickpocket.

25
All of life is a near-death experience.

26
A teardrop is a liqueur to the future.

27
Those who choose bravely learn deeply.

28
Earth is unsure footing and wealth is insecure, but how you've loved and given will deathlessly endure.

29
Weak warriors kill bodies; strong warriors win hearts.

30
Freedom, to the aimless, may seem a jail.

Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

July 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Jun 2011 W T 1 2 7 8 9 14 15 16 21 22 23 28 29 30 T Tuesday Wednesday Aug 2011 W T 3 4 10 11 17 18 24 25 31 Thursday Friday Saturday

1
F 5 12 19 26 S 6 13 20 27 Exits from the freeway of truth begin at a small angle.

2
The kindest way to make chicken soup is to leave out the chicken.

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3
Clocks accurately tick while time slips away like a black cat in the night.

4
We can't really break the universal laws, but if we ignore them, they'll break us.

5
Nothing matters, and so does everything.

6
A friendship can go no deeper than the confiding.

7
If there were a drug to reduce ego, would it sell?

8
The intelligent are wary of the smart.

9
Two invisible antagonists animate nearly every board meeting. They are quality and quantity.

10
The brain is a museum of the past, the heart a garden of the future.

11
Without roses, thorns would be out of business.

12
He traveled the world, carrying vast unexplored territories within.

13
If life gives us a load, a great honor's bestowed. Life knows, if we don't, that we can when we won't.

14
Dogs offer you humility. Cats invite it.

15
Do: a verb sprinkled liberally into airline announcements to create the illusion of intense caring.

16
After 50, the best thing about a birthday is having it.

17
Pain doesn't enjoy you, either, but it's got a job to do.

18
"You have mastered it, my disciple. Next week we will explore the sound of one hand NOT clapping."

19
If a cat could speak, it probably wouldn't.

20
After a motivational seminar you feel like new frosting on an old cake.

21
Walk where your feet are.

22
The hell you feel is the one that's real.

23
Why can't we not worry by not wanting to worry?

24
Every person we meet is both a wonderland and a curriculum.

25
Hell provides a room for people who assume, which gets some ventilation, but my, what a population!

26
Kind acts never die, and what is kind in yourself was waiting for you.

27
Beginnings whoop; endings weep.

28
It's easy to be critical, but it's even easier to be bureaucratic, which is why bureaucracy is always ahead of its critics.

29
To know who you are, observe what you do.

30
Wisdom from words fades away, but wisdom from anguish remains and remains.

31
A sure way to learn is by ignoring good advice.

Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

August 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
Reality is what's left to us after all of our failures to find it.

2
One inevitable can overturn thousands of impossibles.

3
Godspeed can leave devilish messes.

4
Cute twice, clich forever.

5
It is efficient to be patient about several things at once.

6
Even when things are all in place, they're very close to being out of place.

7
Said love is maybe; realized love is yes.

8
Sometimes we get an urge to do some great thing, and we'd really do it if someone could just tell us what it is.

9
An ounce of good will is worth a pound of prevention.

10
The goose that lays the golden eggs gets taken out to lunch a lot.

11
The bad news is that you are the slave of your past. The good news is that you are the master of your future.

12
You know you're getting old when you notice that your first name is being given to babies again.

13
Gossip is a time-filling voodoo that uses words for pins.

14
History is kept exciting by humanity's continuous influx of fresh ignorance.

15
Computers won't ever become minds until they can cry -- and mean it.

16
Taste makes waist.

17
Infinity is the quickest shortcut to the unknown.

18
If such great people have labored so diligently for so long, why is there still so much more to do?

19
Creativity leads to crisis, which leads to creativity.

20
American work ethic: busy is good, frantic is excellent, and burnt-out is sublime.

21
Our deepest wound may heal to become our greatest strength.

22
We are poor in what we think we own.

23
Imposing virtue upon others is like trying to paint raindrops.

24
The best wars never start, and all the others last far too long.

25
We are often blinded by what we can see, or paralyzed by what we can do.

26
If the future is infinite, mortality may be a passing fad.

27
Competition is the ego's journey; contemplation, the soul's.

28
We develop a fondness for people we help.

29
An opinion without self-interest is as rare as self-interest without an opinion.

30
To count marbles: one, two, three, four. To count humans: one, one, one, one.

31
Sooner or later one's purpose in life comes pushing up through one's mistakes like a delicate flower blooming in a trash heap. S 3 10 17 24 31 M 4 11 18 25 T 5 12 19 26

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Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

September 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Aug 2011 W T 3 4 10 11 17 18 24 25 31 Tuesday Oct 2011 W T 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
F 7 14 21 28 S 1 8 15 22 29 Religions seem to hook into different parts of the sky.

2
Rainbows are around us all the time, but it may take a very dark cloud to make one appear.

3
Nice days are more made than had.

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4
The ground keeps us bound, but the sky tells us why.

5
For later flowers, if we but endure, misfortune makes a good manure.

6
Ignoring people's promises doubles pleasure when they're kept.

7
One person lies, two people conspire, three incorporate.

8
Random silences deepen a conversation and add force to an argument.

9
A guru said to his gathered disciples: "There are two kinds of people: those who don't know, and those who don't know that they don't know." A disciple asked, "How do you know?"

10
To refuse free goods and sold enlightenment can prevent a lot of complications.

11
Evil is kinetic stupidity.

12
The moon and computers remain similarly aloof when confronted with anger.

13
Life brings situations in which we feel like Jonah or Noah, who were each stuck inside something that moved slowly, smelled bad, and couldn't be steered.

14
Until we understand silence, we only partially understand words.

15
A quarter for expertise buys a dollar's worth of peace.

16
For the endless commitments we make, our days contain too few infinities.

17
Each human life is like a new symphony heard for the first time. It can't be understood or fully appreciated until after the final cadence.

18
A library contains millions of pages of maybe.

19
When it is time to cry, you do. No volcano is more irresistible than a sobbing whose time has come.

20
The flowers never charge the bees, and pea pods don't invest their peas, but bipeds have such minds for fees that if they could, they'd sell the breeze.

21
The first shall be last and the last shall be first, while the mass in the middle opine.

22
When prophets turn to profits, wisdom turns within.

23
If unpaid overtime isn't slavery, it's certainly funny money.

24
Is the universe a mindless collection of spinning dirt, or does it know what it's doing? That is the question of the ages. If the former, why are we so intelligent? If the latter, why are we so ignorant?

25
Wisdom is knowledge dampened with tears.

26
Stumbling blocks make wonderful starting blocks for the next race.

27
For every day that you hang on a cliff, you get a wider view of life.

28
A kind act is worth a dozen beliefs.

29
Love and gravitation keep the universe interesting.

30
Mankinds three deepest imponderables are infinity, eternity, and stupidity.

Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

October 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Tuesday Sep 2011 W T 1 6 7 8 13 14 15 20 21 22 27 28 29 T Wednesday Nov 2011 W T 2 3 9 10 16 17 23 24 30 Thursday Friday Saturday

1
F 4 11 18 25 S 5 12 19 26 Each life is a leaf that knows little of the whole tree.

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2
A secret, if whispered carefully, will spread faster than the ten o'clock news.

3
To find out is human; to find in, divine.

4
About half of humanity have ego problems, while the other half seem proud not to have any.

5
The spouse who loved the caterpillar may hate the butterfly.

6
Progress entails thinking outside of the box to create fresh boxes for the unimaginative to think inside of.

7
Our enemies teach us lessons that our admirers never can.

8
Calendar: a device for scheduling the unpredictable.

9
Many newcomers in hell are soon put to work designing phone menus.

10
Sooner or later we get what we want, which would be fine if we only knew how to want correctly.

11
Eternity isn't something we wait for -- it's what we breathe.

12
Evolution is apparently endless on both ends.

13
We carry the sky in our lungs and the earth in our wallets.

14
In an important business meeting there will typically be more faces than people.

15
When you've been patient long enough, you get to be patient some more.

16
The mind discovers buttons that the heart refrains from pushing.

17
Kilter is rarely noticed until something goes out of it.

18
Precisely where you're not getting is where you may not be giving.

19
Earth life is a subset of poetry.

20
Ecstasy may have to sweep the floor tomorrow and hate it. Joy works long and lightly.

21
Tomorrow holds rewards for thoughtfulness today, distilled from painful errors in endless yesterday.

22
Love isn't a question of multiple choice.

23
Moods enter children like breezes through open windows.

24
The silence in an elevator full of strangers is different from that in a forest on a summer evening. The former silence screams of crowded separateness, while the latter whispers of sequestered unity.

25
Compete, and everywhere, competitors; cooperate, and everywhere, culture.

26
Irritation is a universal poison for which forgiveness is a universal antidote.

27
When truth needs a voice, silence lies.

28
Heaven isn't far -- in fact, it's hugging us.

29
Even perfection has its limitations. For example, a perfect square can hardly roll.

30
Profound blessings move slowly because so much moves.

31
A lighted candle has no fear of the dark.

Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

November 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
A deed of love pulls a hidden string that makes a bell in heaven ring.

2
The unforgiving are the most likely to do the unforgivable.

3
When one sits to meditate, the mind may at first sound like a jukebox in a cathedral.

4
The small angers the small.

5
Each ballot is a bullet unshot.

6
I, the thinnest word in the dictionary, easily slips into most of our thoughts.

7
After formal education has dazzled and dismayed, root errors bring on root learning.

8
A sharp tongue cuts itself.

9
Every day is more evidence of forever.

10
There is no freedom from freedom -- it endlessly compels us to do as we choose.

11
A good friendship, like a good river, comes back together after hitting a rock.

12
Ulterior motives may be invisible, but oh, the smell.

13
Charity and software piracy begin at home.

14
Pain kindly wakes up stupidity lest it slumber through eternity.

15
See with your heart -- it never needs glasses.

16
Thank God if your car breaks down oftener than your body. Some bodies are lemons.

17
Knock, then realize you've always been inside.

18
You may wish on a star, but you get what you are.

19
Plants reach out for the light, while humans reach in.

20
Higher education trains your mind to feel good later by making it feel terrible now.

21
The heart is the best advisor, and also the nearest.

22
We age in years, but we mature in moments.

23
A dangerous place to stand is in the way of someone else's highest calling.

24
You are not what you do, but what you do anyway.

25
We depend upon each other for our independence.

26
Undone tasks quickly have children and grandchildren.

27
If contentment is enlightenment, then a cow is Buddha.

28
Where love is the root, gratitude is the flower.

29
Months come disguised as days, and swindle us sweetly of years.

30
With every beat the heart is jumping for joy, though the mind may be doubting and pouting in heedless gloom. S 2 9 16 23 30 M 3 10 17 24 31 T 4 11 18 25

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Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

December 2011
Daily Ponderables by Alan Harris
Sunday Monday Nov 2011 W T 2 3 9 10 16 17 23 24 30 Tuesday Jan 2012 W 4 11 18 25 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
T 5 12 19 26 F 6 13 20 27 S 7 14 21 28 Business office survivors learn to distinguish bluster from need, and anxiety from importance.

2
Truest gifts cannot be wrapped.

3
Scrooge no longer hates Christmas, now that he's acquired it.

S 6 13 20 27

M 7 14 21 28

T 1 8 15 22 29

F 4 11 18 25

S 5 12 19 26

S 1 8 15 22 29

M 2 9 16 23 30

T 3 10 17 24 31

4
Seeing believes, wisdom knows, and love is.

5
What God has put asunder, let no man paste together.

6
Time is all we have, and most of what we don't have.

7
Words can be bombs, balloons, or communion cups, depending on what we put in them.

8
As Santa comes down the spine from the head to the heart, everything seems a gift.

9
The heart loves unity. The mind loves diversity. The body settles for flattery.

10
Christmas and a minimum universe both ask for only one star and some generosity.

11
If your guru charges, retreat.

12
With leaders we build; with rulers we cope.

13
Affectation is wealth's poverty.

14
As you take a step, the step takes you.

15
Authority without love is a universal poison.

16
Happy are the wantless, whatever they have or lack.

17
Each person is a statue of his or her soul.

18
Like milestones on a journey, our mistakes show us right where we are.

19
The main trouble with living as if there's no tomorrow is that there almost always is one.

20
Crying makes an inner rainbow.

21
To find eternity, lift up the minute.

22
Aging has acquired a bad reputation, but it's a wonderful way to stay alive.

23
Guilt is a little prison that keeps you out of big ones.

24
Our gift isn't that we have, but that we see.

25
Does the Star of Bethlehem not shine from every eye?

26
We learn so much from some of our mistakes that we keep on repeating them.

27
Gifts given give gifts.

28
Good forever gathers what evil blindly scatters.

29
In a nutshell, be a nut.

30
New Year's resolutions divide the resolver into master and oppressed, and history usually favors the oppressed.

31
Infused and confused within the unfolding Cosmic Aim, we seal our past in glass and welcome, as all there is and will be, our future.

Copyright 2008 by Alan Harris. All rights reserved. Web site: www.alharris.com/ponderables

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